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Guitar
Date: 1930-1935 ca.
Place Made:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Serial No: none
Signednone
MarkingsOn face of peghead in pencil: E A D G B E
DescriptionMaple: back, sides, neck & peghead; spruce soundboard; ebony fingerboard and heel plate; 18 nickel silver frets; bone nut with nickel-silver riser; rosewood bridge with bone saddle; two pairs of machine tuners with nickel-plated steel hardware and ivory-colored plastic heads; alternating black and white block celluloid purfling; stencied black floral and geometric designs on soundboard and sides; 4 mother-of-pearl fret markers inlaid
Slab-cut or plywood maple back
Maple sides
Maple neck and head; neck with v-shaped profile
4 spruce ladder braces on back and top
Neck block: poplar with bevelled corners
End block: poplar
Lining: kerfed poplar
Slab-cut or plywood maple back
Maple sides
Maple neck and head; neck with v-shaped profile
4 spruce ladder braces on back and top
Neck block: poplar with bevelled corners
End block: poplar
Lining: kerfed poplar
DimensionsLength: 36 ¾”
Depth at bottom of lower bout: 3 13/16”
Width upper bout: 9 ½
Depth at neck: 3 1/16”
Width lower bout: 13 5/16”
Width at waist: 7 ¾”
Depth at bottom of lower bout: 3 13/16”
Width upper bout: 9 ½
Depth at neck: 3 1/16”
Width lower bout: 13 5/16”
Width at waist: 7 ¾”
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Object number: 03845